A Word From The Filmmaker

“My name is Damien.
I make adventure films.
Nathalie’s project bewitched me, and I challenged myself to follow her on parts of her expedition with a fatbike – a mountain bike with giant wheels – to make a movie about her…

I knew I would have to face numerous challenges with this shooting: dealing with the cold of the arctic, not only for me but for my equipment (and I had no previous experience of that); follow a solitary person and make a film about her, being with yer yet not disrupting her roaming and not breaking her vow for solitude; riding my fatbike in the arctic, with various types and conditions of snow and ice, in the arctic night and then spring; feed myself properly (which is a more subtle challenge than it seems, because I am a raw foddist and a vegan…). I then decided to top it all with yet another bet: bring back the footage to document the shooting itself, and share with the audience all the tips and tricks my common sense and my motivation alone made me set-up to make sure I’d be back some day with a good feature film and a making-of film shot, written, and edited as a standalone film!”